Sri Lanka - Complex Emergency
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Regional Team: Asia
Disaster Declared: 10/06/2006
Brief Description: As of January 2007, more than two decades of conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam separatist group had caused at least 65,000 deaths, according to humanitarian monitoring organizations. According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), renewed conflict displaced approximately 215,000 people, primarily in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, from April 2006 to early February 2007. As of February 2007, approximately 315,000 individuals remained displaced from earlier stages of the conflict, in addition to 150,000 people who still lacked permanent shelter as a result of the December 2004 tsunami. As of November 2006, 15,800 people had fled Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
On October 6, 2006, U.S. Ambassador Robert O. Blake re-declared a disaster due to the ongoing conflict and resulting internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka and requested additional OFDA support. As of January 2007, OFDA had allocated more than $1.2 million in FY2007 to support protection, logistics, and coordination and information management activities. This funding augmented $1.1 million provided by OFDA for humanitarian programs beginning in FY 2006.
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